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Joseph in Egypt

Thomas Mann 1929 Nobel Prize winner. How Mann manages to pull suspense out of a story that everyone knows is just amazing. It's a page turner from start to finish.

As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing the Yo- element with a reference to Osiris to indicate that he is now in the underworld. This change of name to account for changing circumstances encourages Amenhotep to change his own name to Akhenaten.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 664
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9789998956919
  • Characters
  • Joseph, son of Jacob (Bible), Jacob (Bible)
  • Genres
  • classics, fiction, literature, germany, historical, collections
  • Release date
  • 1938